Nowy Port (Gdańsk)

Gdańsk Nowy Port
District of Gdansk	Gdańsk Nowy Port
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Pomerania
District of:	Gdańsk
Area :	2.2786  km²
Geographic location :	54 ° 24 '  N , 18 ° 40'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 23 '51 "  N , 18 ° 39' 54"  E
Residents :	10,684 (January 2011)

Location of Nowy Port in the Gdansk city area

Nowy Port ( German Neufahrwasser , Kashubian Nowi Pòrt / Fôrwôter ) is a district of the city of Danzig ( Gdańsk ) in Poland . This covers an area of ​​2.3 km² and has 10684 inhabitants with a population density of 4689 inhabitants / km². The district came administratively to the city of Danzig in 1814.

etymology

From 1600 more and more sand was deposited at the nearby mouth of the Vistula. As a result, the former mouth of the Vistula silted up more and more, instead a new fairway was formed between the Westerplatte and the mainland. In 1673 the Danzig Council ordered the new fairway to be dredged, and the excavation was used to reclaim land. Initially the channel was called Westerfahrt, in 1724 it was named on a map as “The new fairway”. This name was later transferred to the neighboring country as "Neufahrwasser".

Geographical location

Nowy Port is in the north of Gdansk and is on the Baltic coast . Nowy Port borders the Przeróbka district to the east, Letnica to the south and Brzeźno to the west . East of Nowy Port, the Gdańsk Vistula flows into the Baltic Sea.

history

Port Authority in Nowy Port, next to it the lighthouse

Originally the Neufahrwasser area belonged to the Oliva monastery , later it was leased by the city of Danzig. In 1627 a fortress was built, which was finally completed in 1688. After the First Partition of Poland , Neufahrwasser became part of Prussia and was thus separated from Danzig, which only became part of Prussia twenty years later. At that time Neufahrwasser consisted of seven residential buildings. Under Frederick the Great , a port was built in Neufahrwasser due to its strategically favorable location, so that the place grew.

In the 19th century, barracks were built and Neufahrwasser and its port became an important military base. In 1893 a lighthouse was built in Neufahrwasser, which was the first lighthouse on the Baltic Sea to use electric light. As a result of the Versailles Treaty , Neufahrwasser became part of the Free City of Danzig .

On September 1, 1939, the Neufahrwasser lighthouse went down in history when a Polish military post on the Westerplatte was shot at from it at 4:45 a.m. , which marked the beginning of the battle for the Westerplatte and the attack on Poland . Together with the Free City of Danzig, Neufahrwasser was annexed by the German Reich in violation of international law . From September 1939 to the beginning of 1940 the civil prisoner camp Neufahrwasser existed as a transit camp in Neufahrwasser . After the Second World War, Neufahrwasser, like the entire city of Danzig, was transferred to the Polish administration and was given the Polish name Nowy Port (German: new port). 1951 Nowy Port got a connection to the S-Bahn network of Tri-City , which was decommissioned in the 2000s.

traffic

Nowy Port is connected to the inner-city transport network via lines 5, 7 and 10 of the Gdańsk tram . Nowy Port used to be connected to the railway network via a junction from the Gdańsk – Stargard railway line. Train traffic ended there in 2002 and the line was closed.

Sports

The football club SV Neufahrwasser , founded in 1919, made it to the quarter-finals of the German football championship in 1943 , and the club was dissolved at the end of World War II. Today in Nowy Port there is the Portowiec Gdańsk football club , which plays at the district level.

literature

• Boehnke, Edith: Neufahrwasser and Weichselmünde , AW Kafemann Verlag, Danzig 1929

Web links

Commons : Nowy Port  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

See also

• List of seaside resorts and resorts on the Baltic Sea in Poland

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Podział administracyjny Gdańska - Gdańsk - oficjalna strona miasta - Official website of the City of Gdańsk. As of January 12, 2011. Accessed January 17, 2012
2. ↑ History Neufahrwassers on danzig.org , accessed on February 10, 2017
3. ↑ The lighthouse of Danzig-Neufahrwasser ( Memento of the original from July 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 10, 2017 
4. ↑ Portowiec Gdańsk on 90minut.pl , accessed on February 10, 2017